doing without knowledge
That ‘knowledge is power’ is rarely disputed by anyone. Literacy has established linguistic semiotics as a dominant coping-capacity and mediator of perception that allows us to plan, control and manipulate […]
Tag Archives: agency
Dispersed Vectors 1
For Gregory Bateson, it is a “pathology of epistemology” (1973) that causes us to overlook our connections to the broader environment, threatening the very existence of humanity and causing the […]
Crisis + Habit = Update
INFRA-STRUCTURE is Politics. ‘New media’—we are told—exist at the bleeding edge of obsolescence. We thus forever try to catch up, updating to remain the same. But what do we miss […]
Concepts adequate to the times?
From beautiful mind of Mckenzie Wark: Now that the world most of us have known is ending, it might be time to pay more attention to the experience of those […]
the residual dilemma
To celebrate that which came after Henri Bergson ushering William James out of the delusion of rationalism: Let us leave out the soul, then, and confront what I just called […]
Under the Sign of Erasure
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
Capitalist realism is about a corrosion of social imagination, and in some ways, that remains the problem: after thirty years of neoliberal…
Nefarious Agents: Elliot Abrams
This is the first in an ongoing series intended to peel back the glossy facade of ideology and intellectual fancy to show the all-to-human faces of agents of power. It’s […]
